Tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in 34 children: Clinical and radiologic profiles and associations with other diseases

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 777-781

  Yalçin, Ebru ^a   Doǧru, Deniz ^a   Özçelik, Uǧur ^a   Kiper, Nural ^a   Aslan, Ayşe Tana ^a   Gözaçan, Ahmet ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BRONCHOMALACIA; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSKINESIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNGOMALACIA; LUNG DYSPLASIA; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PHARYNX DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; STRIDOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRACHEOMALACIA; WHEEZING;

BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 28844445919     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280504400905     Document Type: Review

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